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A woman who said she was in need of a child’s car seat told Rockwood police that she was stalked by the man who helped her out.

Robert Bargy, the purported stalker, steadfastly denies the allegations, however.

The encounter happened on May 8 at the Rockwood Walmart.

“I spoke with Laura Lunsford who told me that she was needing a car seat for a 1-year-old,” officer Jared Hall wrote in the police report. “She said that Jerry Wells had asked on Facebook for help getting it.”

Roane County voters will head to the polls in November to decide whether the county will implement a $50 wheel tax to help fund the $68 million school plan, the County Commission decided on Monday.

For many Commissioners, putting the wheel tax on the ballot is a way to ensure voters have a say in a controversial $68 million school building plan that would include closing three high schools and consolidating them into a new facility the Board of Education hopes to build near Roane State Community College.

A 14-year-old boy reportedly took his mother’s car and he and his 13-year-old friend took turns driving it around Rockwood.

According to the May 8 report, Police Officer Daniel Jeffries was on his way to 430 W. Tedder St. to investigate a prowler call around 1:20 a.m. when he spotted a gold Buick LeSabre.

“As the vehicle approached me, it drove off the road into the green at the church at 821 N. Front St.,” the report said. “I made a U-turn and before I could get turned around, the vehicle turned left on W. Dunn St.”

Last week’s Roane County Commission vote to put a wheel tax referendum on the ballot in November doesn’t mean funding for the Roane County Board of Education’s $68 million building plan can’t be secured before then.

County officials are in the process of putting a budget together for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

Roane County Executive Ron Woody said Friday the budget should be ready in time for Commission to vote on it at its July meeting.